First Days: Hoss Zaré on having thick skin and survival in America by The World published on 2013-08-20T17:46:16Z Hoss Zaré moved to San Francisco after being exiled from Iran in 1986. He says when you come to this country, you’re on your own. He remembers surviving on canned tuna and coffee in college. Today, he owns the city’s popular Zaré at Fly Trap restaurant. PRI’s The World, inspired the South Asia Asian American Digital Archive’s <a href="http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/firstdays">First Days Project</a>, is looking for stories of your, your parents’ and grandparents’ first days in the United States. Share your story by using the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=firstdays&src=typd">#firstdays on Twitter</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/firstdays">Facebook</a>, or by tagging your Soundcloud story <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tags/firstdays">firstdays</a>. Genre firstdays